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Jammu and Kashmir: Another infiltration bid foiled in Gurez Sector, one terrorist killed

Another Infiltration Bid Foiled In Gurez Sector Of Jammu And Kashmir In Which A Terrorist Was Gunned Down On Saturday.

News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Prakhar Sharma | Updated on: 10 Jun 2017, 02:20:45 PM

New Delhi:

Another Infiltration bid foiled in Gurez Sector of Jammu and Kashmir in which a terrorist was gunned down on Saturday.

The operation is still underway.

after the infiltration bid was foiled there were speculative search operations conducted by security personnel in Lal Chowk area of Srinagar. 

In a separate incident, one civilian was injured in a crossfire between terrorists and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel in the Qazigund area of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.

The injured civilian has been shifted to the nearby hospital. Ammunition has also been recovered from the location.

On Friday, the Army killed six militants near the Line of Control (LoC) while foiling fifth infiltration bid from Pakistan into Kashmir in three days, raising to 12 the total number of infiltrators killed during the period.

With the latest operation, the number of militants killed in encounters along the LoC in north Kashmir in the past four days has gone up to 14.

An Army jawan also lost his life in one of the encounters.

A defence spokesman on Thursday said multiple attempts made by Pakistan army to push armed infiltrators across the LoC were foiled by the troops at Machhil and Naugam sectors in Kupwara district, Gurez in Bandipora district and Uri in Baramulla, resulting in the killing of seven militants.

All the four infiltration bids were aided by the Pakistani forces who provided active support, including cover fire using heavy calibre artillery, the Army's Northern Command had said in a statement.

With the killing of six militants in Uri sector on Friday and one in Gurez on Saturday, the Army has foiled eight infiltration attempts in less than a fortnight in North Kashmir.

Three of the attempts were scuttled in Uri sector alone. On May 26, the Army killed two Pakistani Border Action Team (BAT) members who tried to infiltrate into Uri sector in Baramulla district to carry out an attack on the soldiers.

Six more militants were killed in the same sector the next day when they attempted to sneak into the valley from across the border.

This year, Army foiled 24 infiltration attempts killing 41 armed intruders along the LoC. 

 

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First Published : 10 Jun 2017, 11:41:00 AM

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